This game is on a terrible state right now.

[Boblawblah]

There are other MMOs, even some F2Ps, that manage to have patch cycles shorter than FFXIV's while also providing considerably more content.

And this isn't one of those mmos. Do you think that they'll suddenly start pumping out more content with shorter cycles just because other mmos do it?

This never has to be the case, They can just improve the size of the development team.

From what we heard Square Enix recently acquired multiple game studios, any number of those studio's could be handed over to the XIV team to help bolster the amount of content we receive in the same timeframe.

I'll be honest, that doesn't sound like them saying "we're going to double the money we invest into FFXIV and add a bunch of studios to development" it sounds like PR speak. But hey, that would be amazing, maybe with 7.0 they'll ramp up development. Would be great for everyone to have what they want.